The CSBE Public Lecture Series

CSBE occasionally organizes public lectures on issues related to architecture and the built environment. These lectures have been held in association with, and through support from, cultural organizations including Darat al-Funun / the Khalid Shoman Foundation, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Goethe Institute / Jordan.

The speakers for these lectures are usually from outside Jordan. They include architects and scholars from the Arab world and also ones of an international stature. These public lectures aim at keeping the Jordanian public abreast of developments relating to the built environment that are taking place beyond the boundaries of Jordan, on both the regional and international levels.

The contents of some of the public lecture series are being published on the CSBE web site. The published materials include the discussions that the lectures create, and also hyperlinks to additional suggested readings. The site also allows and encourages readers to provide questions and comments. (For additional information concerning the publishing of the public lectures, please see the CSBE E-publishing program).

Schedule of public lectures during the 2014-2015 season

October 3, 2015

The Tectonic GrainNader TehraniDean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of Cooper Union in New York City, former Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Principal of the architectural practice NADAAA in Boston

February 13, 2007Public Sphere by Public Space? Dimensions of the Public Sphere in late Ottoman Damascus and Bilad al-ShamStephan Weber, Orient Institute, Beirut

Schedule of public lectures organized during the 2001 - 2002 season:

April 21, 2002Riyadh Architecture in One Hundred YearsSaleh al-HathloulDeputy Minister for Town Planning, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia(The lecture was organized in association with the Architectural Section of the Jordan Engineers Association)

October 20, 2001Architecture for a Changing World: Twenty Years of the Aga Khan Award for ArchitectureSuha OzkanSecretatry General, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture